ECOWAS had initiated a peace deal between President Tijan Kabbah and the rebel Revolutionary United Front, RUF, led by Foday Sankoh.

Foday Sankoh, the leader of a 10-year terror campaign in Sierra Leone, has died while waiting to be tried for war crimes. The spokesperson for the United Nations-backed war crimes tribunal in Sierra ...

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Foday Sankoh led a vicious rebel group whose fighters used machetes to hack off the hands, feet, lips and ears of Sierra Leone's civilians and raped thousands of girls and women. He was idolised as a ...

Civil war began in Sierra Leone in the early 1990s, when the RUF led by Foday Sankoh – and supported by President Taylor – began seizing control of areas containing diamond mines. The RUF – and other ...

MONROVIA, Liberia—Two defense witnesses have confirmed the accounts of other witnesses that an alleged Sierra Leonean warlord was in Liberia during its second civil war. But “Defence 5” and ...

And yet, she met with some of the worst. Syria’s Hafez al-Assad, North Korea’s Kim Jong Il, Sierra Leone rebel leader Foday Sankoh and others can all be found in her appointment books.

Sankoh was captured after his fighters gunned down more than a dozen protesters outside his Freetown home, and had been in UN custody in prisons and hospitals since. Forceful military intervention by ...